When,
in fact, the visionary has simply turned his face to the future.”

Ray Davis

Groupthink in Service of Government

If the human race
survives into the future, the history of the current age will be entitled – A Love Affair with Authority. As
the 21st century unfolds, the existential struggle between group worship of government and an inherent autonomy revolt against a popular culture of state obedience seems to forecast
doom for civilization. By any measurable standard of success, the prospects of rescuing a society based upon human dignity
and natural law is vanishing in a technocratic system of coerced compliance and punitive punishment. The limits of individual
behavior are severely restricted to the requirements of the State and the willful confines of self-induced conformity.

The prison of institutional establishment restraints, based upon a designed
hallucination of media newspeak and trendy pop culture gullibility, has the populace adsorbed in trivia and addicted to a
governmental version of reality. The practice of "Free Will", relegated to the acceptance of government dependency
and peer pressure harmony, is common among the ranks of the conflict challenged. The motivation of individual liberty is foreign
in the cultural cloning society that makes up the collectivist public consciousness.

Before
placing primary blame on the usual suspects - corporatists, banksters, and politico sociopaths - understand the fact that
the top down authoritarian framework operates on the tenet that public acceptance of the system is indispensable. What possible
psychological disorder is in play that differentiates the current generations from their ancestors?

This inauspicious
culture, dominated by the disorder of Groupthink, is explained in an informative power point presentation, from Psychologists for Social
Responsibility. From the perspective of an "application of psychological knowledge
and expertise in addressing today's pressing societal challenges and in building cultures of peace with social justice"
this left learning society offers the following breakdown.

Groupthink,
a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis (1972), occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures
lead to a deterioration of "mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment" Groups affected by groupthink
ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other groups. A group is especially vulnerable
to groupthink when its members are similar in background, when the group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there
are no clear rules for decision making.

"The
groupthink theorist wants to gain standing as a social theorist and therefore wants to avoid unnecessary controversy. Accordingly,
groupthink theorists—at least those like Janis and Hart—have focused on episodes where, in hindsight, the judgment
of failure (or error) is uncontroversial. The need for uncontroversial judgment is one reason why the scope of groupthink
applications has been quite limited.

In this article, we apply groupthink
theory to a setting where the presupposition of failure is anything but uncontroversial."

"Perhaps the clearest way to illustrate how we see the problem of social-democratic
groupthink in the humanities and social sciences is to perform a thought experiment. Imagine a doctoral student who unabashedly
holds classical-liberal ideas. Ask yourself whether such a student would be able to find warm support in the elite departments
of political science, sociology, history, and so forth. Ask yourself whether the student, no matter how solid his research,
would be likely to win grants, have his articles published by the most respected journals, and succeed on the academic job
market."

Groupthink does not escape
the bastion of mainstream conservative outlets. Maisie Allison editorial digital director of The American Conservative write
in Beyond Fox News makes a valid point about The Rise of Post-Movement Conservatism.

"The
groupthink is so extensive that several conservative publications seem to exist only to promote the work of other, indistinguishable
movement outlets. (One typical headline from the Washington Free Beacon: "Fox News Cites Free Beacon Report.") Here
the mission ranges from "use journalism to advance the movement" to "war." As one attendee at the Faith
and Freedom Coalition’s annual conference told Atlantic reporter Molly Ball last year, "You couldn’t get
in an argument around here no matter how hard you tried."

Whether
in academia or the elite media, Groupthink is a requirement for career survival. Yet, in the View from the Mount article,
Ideology Matters, But What
Is It?, the essential component in the Totalitarian Collectivism fellowship eludes the cultural war merchants who want to avoid controversy.

"'TC' now rules! Few are willing to challenge
the bureaucratic mechanism that is designed to compel insidious compliance. The operative standard is now one of dreadful
despair while pious arguments are presented that society is advancing. Most people understand that they are now at the mercy
of the commissar, but are unwilling to reject this abuse and defend their own rights. As long as this submissive Ideology
is accepted, surrender is inevitable. Self-respect is in short supply, while self-esteem is fostered as a substitute for truth
and honor."

"Ivory
tower utopians march in the ranks of statist totalitarians by choice. Many seek to lead the charge. The "rank and file"
that digs the ditches, usually lacks the skills to think independently for their self. Nonetheless, they are usually the first
to rally to the cause of their sanitized Führer that preaches hope and change, with every loss of freedom. No one political
theory has a monopoly on despotism. Yet the "peaches and cream" slogans of fairness and equality, that come from
the ultra extreme wing of the Democratic Party, out does the worst of the GOP civil libertarian destroyers.

Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest is the end product of the collectivist education system that indoctrinates
impressionable brains with reverence for the dependency society. Mush minds come out of this corrosive process. Voting for
entitlements and the expansion of the democratic totalitarianism becomes the norm."

Individual
responsibility is avoided like the plague. People rationalize blame on every other factor other than their own inaction. The
recent popularity of social network services and forums has demonstrated a frightening trend to extinguish Free Speech from
the web. The impersonal selection of dislike or the "PC" Groupthink comments on content that offends the defenders
of the cult of government are the true cowards.

The Jacobin Clubs of advocates for the public sector are prime candidates to bloody
their hands in the coming terror meant to stamp out any earnest dissent against the old regime. Dropping the guillotine on
the heads of anti-establishment traditionalists is good fun for the Groupthink statists that deceive themselves into believing
they are "social justice" advocates.

Censorship
in thought precedes freedom of behavior in deeds. Civil liberties are dirty words in the urbanity of cultural authoritarianism.
Elegance of polite discourse has given way to the suppression of bourgeois demeanor. The mere mention of anything positive
about Christianity earns you a trip to the re-education internment camp for social consciousness.

This
perverted cultural Groupthink is a religion of government worship. The reason "Strappado Wrack" essays are termed political torture, resides in the
absurdity of the failed political process that has brought us all to the point of total tyranny. The believers that cling
to a faux legitimacy of the Federal government are codependent Groupthink asylum nutcases.

The Federal beast would collapse of its own weight, when the enablers of the oppression
seek to heal their affliction and turn away from the dark side. The Janis #3 point - Belief in inherent morality
- Members believe in the rightness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions
is at the axis of the destruction in the character and courage that once existed in this country.

Government
group thinkers are wholly confused or simple dishonest participants. The duty of every loyal citizen is not to the state but
to the spirit of the America Revolution.

“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you
have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your
humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking
are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than
you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin, Last Words